DAILY REPORT : Bail Set at $25,000 for Cowboys’ Tennell

Bail was set at $25,000 Thursday for backup tight end Derek Tennell of the Dallas Cowboys on an arrest warrant alleging failure to provide child support.

Judge Patti Joe McCay of Division 82 of the Los Angeles Municipal Court will hold a bail review hearing next Tuesday with Tennell, who will be available to play for the Cowboys in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

The district attorney’s office filed a complaint based on a paternity lawsuit in 1988 filed by the mother of a 9-year-old child.

Tennell’s lawyer, Mablean Ephriam Paxton, said the district attorney is alleging $30,000 plus interest in back payments, but that Tennell “has been meeting his obligations.”

An Associated Press photographer was detained briefly by campus police after the Buffalo Bills complained he was attempting to take unauthorized pictures of a closed practice at USC.

Joe Cavaretta stopped by the practice field to pick up film. While there, he saw youngsters peeking through a seam in the curtain concealing the practice field, and began shooting pictures of the children.

Bills media relations director Scott Berchtold, accompanied by USC campus police, demanded Cavaretta’s film. An NFL official asked if the league could process the film, and the AP agreed.